Emperor Go-Sai Explained

Emperor Go-Sai
Succession:Emperor of Japan
Reign:January 5, 1655 – March 5, 1663
Coronation:February 17, 1656
Cor-Type:Japan
Predecessor:Go-Kōmyō
Successor:Reigen
Posthumous Name:Tsuigō


Emperor Go-Sai (Japanese: 後西院 or Japanese: 後西天皇)

Reg-Type:Shōguns
Regent:Tokugawa Ietsuna
Spouse: Akiko
Issue:See below
Royal House:Imperial House of Japan
Father:Emperor Go-Mizunoo
Mother:Kushige (Fujiwara) Takako
Birth Date:January 1, 1638
Birth Place:Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Tokugawa shogunate
Death Place:Tokugawa shogunate
(Japan)
Place Of Burial:Tsuki no wa no misasagi, Kyoto

, posthumously honored as, also known as, was the 111th emperor of Japan,[1] according to the traditional order of succession.[2]

Go-Sai's reign spanned the years from 1655 through 1663.[3]

This 17th-century sovereign was named after the 9th-century Emperor Junna and go- (後), translates as later, and thus, he could have been called the "Later Emperor Junna". Emperor Go-Sai could not pass the throne onto his descendants. For this reason, he was known as the Go-Saiin emperor, after an alternate name of Emperor Junna, who had confronted and reached an accommodation with similar issues. This emperor was also called . The Japanese word go has also been translated to mean the second one, and thus, this emperor might be identified as "Junna II". During the Meiji era, the name became just Go-Sai.

Genealogy

Before Go-Sai's accession to the Chrysanthemum Throne, his personal name (imina) was [4] or Yoshihito;[3] and his pre-accession title was or Momozono-no-miya.[2]

He was the eighth son of Emperor Go-Mizunoo. He was raised as if he were the son of Tōfuku-mon'in;[2] both former Empress Meishō and former Emperor Go-Kōmyō were his older half-siblings.

Emperor Go-Sai's Imperial family lived with him in the Dairi of the Heian Palace. This family included at least 16 sons and 17 daughters, none of whom would ascend to the throne.[5]

Events of Go-Sai's life

Nagahito-shinnō became emperor when his emperor-brother died. This death left the throne vacant and the succession (senso) was received by the new monarch. Shortly thereafter, Emperor Go-Sai is considered to have acceded to the throne (sokui).[6] The events during his lifetime shed light on his reign. The years of Go-Sai's reign correspond with a period in which Tokugawa Ietsuna was the leader at the pinnacle of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Go-Sai married the daughter of the first ; and he succeeded as second Takamatsu-no-miya. Then this Imperial prince became the emperor as a temporary measure until his younger brother, could grow older.

After abdicating, Go-sai put his heart into scholarship and he left behind many books, including the "Water and Sun Collection" (Suinichishū, 水日集). He was talented in waka; and he had a profound understanding of the classics.

During his reign, because of great fires at the Grand Ise Shrine, Osaka Castle, and the Imperial Palace, among others, the Great Meireki Fire, earthquakes in the region, and because of repeated floods, many people blamed the Emperor, saying he lacked moral virtue.

Emperor Go-Sai is enshrined in the imperial mausoleum, Tsuki no wa no misasagi, at Sennyū-ji in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto. Also enshrined are Go-Sai's immediate predecessors, Emperor Go-Mizunoo, Empress Meishō and Go-Kōmyō. Go-Sai's immediate Imperial successors, including Reigen, Higashiyama, Nakamikado, Sakuramachi, Momozono, Go-Sakuramachi and Go-Momozono, are enshrined here as well.[11]

At the Kitano Shrine, a tablet over the Chu-mon entryway reads tenmangu in the calligraphy of Emperor Go-sai.[12]

Kugyō

is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras. Even during those years in which the court's actual influence outside the palace walls was minimal, the hierarchic organization persisted.

In general, this elite group included only three to four men at a time. These were hereditary courtiers whose experience and background would have brought them to the pinnacle of a life's career. During Go-Sai's reign, this apex of the Daijō-kan included:

Eras of Go-Sai-tennō's reign

The years of Go-Sai's reign are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō.[3]

Ancestry

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See also

References

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: -天皇陵-後西天皇 月輪陵(ごさいてんのう つきのわのみささぎ)） . 2023-04-27 . www.kunaicho.go.jp.
  2. Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan, pp. 116.
  3. Book: Rin-siyo, Siyun-zai . Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon . 1834 . Oriental Translation Fund . 413 . fr.
  4. Ponsonby-Fane, p. 9.
  5. Ponsonby-Fane, p. 116.
  6. Titsingh, p. 413. A distinct act of senso is unrecognized prior to Emperor Tenji; and all sovereigns except Jitō, Yōzei, Go-Toba, and Fushimi have senso and sokui in the same year until the reign of Emperor Go-Murakami – see Varley, H. Paul. (1980).Jinnō Shōtōki, p. 44.
  7. Meyer, Eva-Maria. (1999). Japans Kaiserhof in der Edo-Zeit, p. 186.
  8. Web site: JAANUS / Sumiyoshiha 住吉派. www.aisf.or.jp.
  9. Titsingh, p. 414.
  10. Titsingh, p. 415.
  11. Ponsonby-Fane, p. 423.
  12. Martin, John. (2002). Kyoto: A Cultural Guide to Japan's Ancient Imperial City, pp. 287–288.
  13. Web site: Genealogy. Reichsarchiv. 30 April 2010 . 20 January 2018. ja.

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